VMware ESX – Removal of HP Agents and Utilities After P2V Migration.

When migrating an HP Proliant based physical machine to a VM using VMware’s P2V process or similar (eg: PlateSpin) it is advisable to remove any HP specific applications, drivers, agents or utilities from the new virtual machine image. The reason for this being that once the OS that was running on the HP Proliant server has been converted to a VM the underlying hardware as far as the OS is concerned has changed and is no longer Proliant based.

Guillermo Musumeci over at CtxAdmTools has written a useful sounding utility called the ‘HP Proliant Support Pack Cleaner’ which will remove all the HP Proliant Support Pack (PSP) from a freshly P2V’ed server. I like the sound of it though at the time of writing this haven’t used it yet so can’t confirm how well it works. Though once I do I will update this post.

A method that I have used and can confirm works is the script below to remove these HP specific utilities and monitoring agents. I have to give credit where credit is due as I didn’t write this particular script. The author of this script is SlickBag and the forum posting on which you can find more details on this script can be found here. I have copied the script in it’s entirety below in case for some reason the original VMware forum posting is ever removed.

One extra addition you may way to include to the script isnew SAS drives to the Proliant range you may also want to add the removal of the “HP Smart Array SAS/SATA Event Notification Service”. This is done by adding the extra line:

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Simon is a UK based Virtualization, Cloud & IT Technology Evangelist working as a Senior Technology Consultant and vSpecialist for EMC. He loves working in the ever changing IT industry & spends most of his time working with Virtualization, Cloud & other Enterprise IT based technologies, in particular VMware, EMC and HP products.

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My name is Simon Seagrave and I am a Massachusetts (ex UK) based Technical Marketing Consultant working for Dell EMC. I love my work & spend most of my time working with Virtualisation & other Enterprise IT based technologies, in particular VMware, EMC and Dell products.
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